Critics: Bush Marginalized Intelligence Oversight Board
When a privacy-rights group requested records to show how many times a secretive presidential oversight board had asked the Justice Department to investigate possible violations of intelligence-gathering laws since 2001, the answer that came back last month was as simple as it was startling. Zero. One possible reason: For more than half of President Bush's first term, the Intelligence Oversight Board had no members because Bush did not appoint anyone to it.
Intelligence watchdog slow to bite, Chicago Tribune, April 3, 2006.
